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Is it me, or is it as the news gets more bearish the stockmarkets rise more? presumably stock mkt players are back to banking on rate cuts galore coming round the corner?

I just would have thought that on a day like today the news flow might have had traders stopping to think a wee bit at least. Or dont they count anymore, have the computers taken over most of the stock market action these days??

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Is it me, or is it as the news gets more bearish the stockmarkets rise more? presumably stock mkt players are back to banking on rate cuts galore coming round the corner?

I just would have thought that on a day like today the news flow might have had traders stopping to think a wee bit at least. Or dont they count anymore, have the computers taken over most of the stock market action these days??

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Is it me, or is it as the news gets more bearish the stockmarkets rise more? presumably stock mkt players are back to banking on rate cuts galore coming round the corner?

I just would have thought that on a day like today the news flow might have had traders stopping to think a wee bit at least. Or dont they count anymore, have the computers taken over most of the stock market action these days??

I assumed that this was because the "very wealthy" wanted to move from "investment" in property (which is making spectacularly small returns) to investment in something else - erm - anything else.

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Is it me, or is it as the news gets more bearish the stockmarkets rise more? presumably stock mkt players are back to banking on rate cuts galore coming round the corner?

I just would have thought that on a day like today the news flow might have had traders stopping to think a wee bit at least. Or dont they count anymore, have the computers taken over most of the stock market action these days??

Of course, I might be wrong. We may well be heading straight for a UK sub-prime crisis on the scale witnessed in the USA. And I know that some Fools - especially Cliff D'Arcy - are much more bearish about prospects for the UK housing market than me. But in my view, a sub-prime-fuelled housing market crash in the UK is extremely unlikely -- in fact, just about as likely as a Martian invasion.

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Of course, I might be wrong. We may well be heading straight for a UK sub-prime crisis on the scale witnessed in the USA. And I know that some Fools - especially Cliff D'Arcy - are much more bearish about prospects for the UK housing market than me. But in my view, a sub-prime-fuelled housing market crash in the UK is extremely unlikely -- in fact, just about as likely as a Martian invasion.

Bearish ???

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Is it me, or is it as the news gets more bearish the stockmarkets rise more? presumably stock mkt players are back to banking on rate cuts galore coming round the corner?

I just would have thought that on a day like today the news flow might have had traders stopping to think a wee bit at least. Or dont they count anymore, have the computers taken over most of the stock market action these days??

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